[R] read.table opening a website incl Password

[Bos, Roger]

Chuck, Roland is trying to read from a web site instead of a ftp site.

I have also gotten this to work:
read.table("ftp://myusr:mypswd@mysite.org/mydir/test.dat")
But when I try to do the same thing from the SEC's ftp site I get an
error, so beyond R, there may be some internet settings that need to be
fiddled with.  Maybe I can tag onto Roland's question and ask for hints
on what configuration options are available?

Thanks,

Roger


 

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Chuck Cleland
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:08 PM
To: Roland Rau
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] read.table opening a website incl Password

Roland Rau wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> in the past I have been able to access websites with data directly. 
> For example the following code works nicely
> 
> mydata <- 
> read.table("http://www.lifetable.de/data/MPIDR/POL_2004.txt",
header=TRUE)
> 
> But what happens if I need a username and password (a different site)?

> How do I do that? Or is it not possible to this in R?
> I tried something like this
> 
> mydata.frame <- 
> read.table("myusr:mypswd at www.mydata.com/adir/afile.txt")
> 
> but it did not work.
> I'd appreciate any hints.
> My platform is Win32 (and I am actually running R 2.3.1, but I guess
> (hope!) this is not the reason. At least I checked the NEWS file 
> whether any changes appeared since 2.3.1 which could affect this
behavior).

  In what way did it not work?  The following seems to work for me:

read.table("ftp://myusr:mypswd@mysite.org/mydir/test.dat")

> Thanks,
> Roland
> 
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